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Safeguard articles tagged "Security Scanning" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.

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Tutorials

How to Run Your First Security Scan

New to security? This beginner walkthrough shows you how to run your first vulnerability scan on a real project, read the results, and know exactly what to do next.

Jul 1, 20266 min read
Best Practices

Reducing false positives in security scanning

Most security scan findings never warrant action. Here's why scanners over-alert, what it costs teams, how Aikido's consolidation approach compares, and what actually cuts false positives.

May 4, 20267 min read
DevSecOps

False Positives vs False Negatives in Security Scanning

False positives in cyber security waste your team's time; false negatives get you breached. Here is how to think about the trade-off and tune for it deliberately.

Jul 3, 20257 min read
Comparisons

Self-Hosted vs SaaS Security Scanning: An Honest Comparison

Run scanners on your own metal or rent the vendor's? A cost, latency, and data-residency comparison from someone who has operated both and regretted each at least once.

Nov 21, 20246 min read
Tool Reviews

SonarQube Security Scanning: Code Quality Meets Application Security

A review of SonarQube's security scanning capabilities, examining how its code quality heritage shapes its approach to vulnerability detection and taint analysis.

Nov 15, 20235 min read
DevSecOps

GitLab CI Security Scanning Setup

Step-by-step guide to enabling SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and container scanning in GitLab CI pipelines.

Mar 22, 20236 min read
DevSecOps

GoSec Static Analysis for Go: Practical Security Scanning

GoSec finds security issues in Go source code. Here is how to get the most out of it without fighting false positives all day.

Sep 18, 20225 min read

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